10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Softball
1. Softball was originally an indoor sport. It was invented in 1887 by George Hancock, a journalist for the Chicago Board of Trade, as a form of indoor baseball to be played during the winter. The next year the game moved outside, and rules and a league were established by the Boat Club in 1889. 2. When it was reinvented as an outdoor game softball was called the “kitten ball” after the fireman Lewis Rober’s softball team “The Kittens”. 3. In the Chicago area, where softball originated, there is still a variant of the [...]